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Definition of Flea beetle
1. Noun. Any small leaf beetle having enlarged hind legs and capable of jumping.
Definition of Flea beetle
1. Noun. Any of the small jumping beetles of the leaf beetle family. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flea Beetle
Literary usage of Flea beetle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1905)
"THE TURNIP FLEA-BEETLE. Phyllo treta nemorum, Linn. Probably owing to the wet
season experienced in, this beetle, although reported from all the Midland ..."
2. Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.), United States General Land Office, United States Dept. of the Interior (1877)
"This little flea-beetle is very abundant in Colorado at all elevations, and is
destined to become a great plague. At Denver it was very abundant in June and ..."
3. Annual Report by Entomological Society of Ontario, Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (1894)
"Indeed, these secondary injuries follow so closely after the attacks of the flea
beetle, and the beetles themselves are so small and shy, that the great ..."
4. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"... a blue grape- feeding flea-beetle, and the black cucumber flea-beetle FIG.
95. Grapevine flea-beetle( ..."
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